2005/2006
Alternative Parents: Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings
Wednesday, September 14, 2005 4:15 PM - 6:15 PM
Clarence Walker, Professor of History at University of California, Davis
Writing Harriet Jacobs: A Life
Thursday, September 22, 2005 4:15 PM - 6:15 PM
Jean Fagan Yellin, Distinguished Professor Emerita at Pace University and winner of the 2004 Frederick Douglass Book Prize
AIDS, Stigmatization, and Culture in Haiti: Implementing Antiretroviral Therapies in a context of Medical Pluralism
Wednesday, November 2, 2005 4:30 PM
Catherine Benoit, Professor of Anthropology at Connecticut College
A Reading and Discussion of Elizabeth Alexander’s New Epic Poem ‘Amistad’
Monday, November 14, 2005 4:15 PM
Elizabeth Alexander, Yale University
A Reading and Discussion of “We Who Are Dark: The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity”
Tuesday, December 13, 2005 7:00 PM
Tommie Shelby, the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University
Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World
Thursday, March 23, 2006 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
David Brion Davis, Yale University Sterling Professor Emeritus